everybody in cleveland that's a minority got obama phones. keep obama in president. he gave us a phone. >> how did he give you a phone? >> you sign up. you got low income, your disability. >> the more free stuff you get, the more you're eligible to get. but eligible. that assumes someone actually checks to see if you're really needy. do the even do that? jillian kay melcher, a reporter for the national review, was curious. so what did you do? >> i went to all the welfare offices in manhattan and a couple in brooklyn for good measure. and i found out that there are people out there approaching you on the street saying hey do you have your free phone yet? >> outside the office. >> outside the office. >> private entrepreneurs. >> that's right. and i'm not on welfare. i told them that. i told them that i'd like to be on welfare. i think a lot of the people who pay for it would like to be. but that was enough. the ended up giving me not just one, three free phones. >> three. the good news is that some places turned you down. >> yeah. the ended up -- well first off you're